Of two like events and 3 forces I speak.
One ended in the sea, the other at the mountain’s peak.
The King protested one force, but to no avail.
Only one force did the Pope derail.
Now some discount this or call it a mental epidemic.
Each event, instigated by a simple mystic.
"Youthful foolishness" some said
Some thought them cherubs, others predicted them dead.
At the sea they expected the old Moses trick.
And walk to take the chosen land from the heretic.
But the trick never came.
Salvation arrived falsely in God’s name.
Deceitful men offered ships
Some sunk, the survivors, the men’s conscripts